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Take Time to Get to Know Yourself!

Taking the time needed to get to know yourself is one of the most important things you can do for yourself, your family, and your community!

According to Socrates, one of our greatest thinkers of all-time, getting to know yourself is truly the most important thing you can do in your lifetime.

I challenge you to step up toward Socrates’ level of thinking. Once you get to know yourself, you may find yourself at peace for the first real time in your life. When you get to know yourself, then you will no longer take part in self-defeating behaviors. You will finally have a real chance of winning and living your life at your true level of potential!

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While living at your true level of potential, you’ll be in a much better position to help yourself and to help your family. No longer will you feel overburdened by family problems. Instead, you’ll develop into the family leader. You’ll become the one in your family tree that turned it all around for many generations to come.

When the common problems of not knowing yourself and dealing with your own family problems no longer robs you of your power, but instead now empowers you, you’ll find a little spring in your step. You’ll finally be ready to take on the world.

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 Your community and your world need leaders like you who know who they are and who feel comfortable in their own skin. The world is looking for someone to lead us all to a higher quality of life. Will that someone be you? I hope so!

 Now teens, go learn, lead, and lay the way to a better world for all of us. Take the time to really to get to know yourself. Remember, you have to love yourself before you can truly love others. If you don’t, you’ll never be any good to anyone. Get to know yourself, love yourself, and become comfortable in your own skin. Trust me, you won’t be sorry! And once again, thanks in advance for all that you do, and all that you will do… 

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